Pacific men's shooting catches cold

The Pacific men's basketball team didn't take its hot shooting with it to Honolulu.

The Record

The Pacific men's basketball team didn't take its hot shooting with it to Honolulu.

The Tigers didn't find their range all game at Hawaii on Thursday night, shooting just 30.9 percent from the field in a 60-52 loss at Stan Sheriff Center, Pacific (9-8, 3-2 Big West Conference) had shot brilliantly in its previous 100 minutes, shooting 56.4 percent in three double-digit victories, but not much fell against the Warriors (10-7, 4-2).

"It's frustrating because if we would have had an average shooting night, we would have won," Pacific coach Bob Thomason said. "Our defense was good and our rebounding was pretty good."

Hawaii made just 37.3 percent of its shots and had 23 turnovers, but did make 7 of 18 from beyond the arc.

The Tigers were 3 of 27 on 3-pointers, and Ross Rivera and Lorenzo McCloud missed 3 of 4 free throws late with Pacific trailing by two points. Thomason said the offense broke down completely.

"They're big inside and we overpenetrated and we were trying to make tough shots over them," Thomason said. "Then we took too many 3s and we're just not going to win many games if Ross (Rivera) and Travis (Fulton) are going to go 1 for 12 (combined)."

Junior guard Sama Taku led Pacific with 15 points and junior center Tony Gill chipped in with 12. Senior center Vander Joaquim had 16 points and nine rebounds to lead the Warriors.